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Chapter 702
Zeke, having gradually encroached upon the domain created by the Corrupted Primordial Light with Abyssal Darkness, mounted Tiamat and held two swords.
WOOOONG!
The holy soul energy and dark soul energy in Ascalon and Leviathan rippled and began to resonate with each other.
The Corrupted Primordial Light embedded in the chest of the avatar combining the Immortal King and Solomon emitted black light.
Soon the avatar gradually increased in size until it became even larger than Tiamat.
KUGUUGUUGUUGU!
The avatar, which had grown as large as a giant, threatened Zeke while wielding Zahak and chains.
Black light flickered from the Corrupted Primordial Light embedded in its chest, and whispers flowed continuously.
[We must create a perfect world. A perfect world…]
The Corrupted Primordial Light was possessed by a distorted madness that the world must be made perfect.
Zeke rode Tiamat toward the Corrupted Primordial Light.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWA!
Spraying the abyssal darkness, Tiamat became a streak of red meteor shooting toward the giant avatar.
Then crude darkness spread like heat haze from the Corrupted Primordial Light embedded in the avatar's chest.
Zeke recognized what this power was.
'The power of Gluttony.'
It was the power of Gluttony, which erases existence by devouring anything, being emitted from the Corrupted Primordial Light.
Zeke spewed the light of Great Purification toward the Gluttony that was trying to devour him and Tiamat.
WOOOOOONG!
The light of Great Purification, containing the power of the Primordial Light before its corruption, extended toward the darkness containing the power of Gluttony.
TSSS! TSSS! TSSS!
The darkness that touched the golden aura was offset and scattered as black ash.
But the speed at which darkness extended was faster than the golden aura Zeke was emitting.
After confirming this, Zeke tried to slow down the progress of darkness by throwing Ascalon and Leviathan.
But instead, even the holy soul energy and dark soul energy imbued in the swords were sucked into the darkness.
Without the power of the Primordial Light, the darkness imbued with the power of Gluttony could not be stopped.
'No, if I could use the power of Shadow...'
As the Shadow Blade imbued in Gram was absorbed into Apollion's divine sword, Zeke had lost the power of Shadow.
Since Zeke could also use the power of Gluttony through shadows, if he hadn't lost that power, he could have countered the darkness of the Corrupted Primordial Light.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWAKWA!
While Zeke was contemplating how to overcome the current situation, the golden aura emitting from his body gradually began to be encroached by darkness.
Even the Abyssal Darkness emitted by Tiamat was being sucked into the darkness, and its domain was gradually shrinking.
Zeke tried to find a way to somehow block the darkness emitted by the Corrupted Primordial Light, but the speed of encroachment became faster and faster.
'Damn it...'
But then…..
KWADDDDDDD!
As the sound of space being torn was heard, something was felt breaking into the isolated space created by the Corrupted Primordial Light.
KAAAAARK!
Surprisingly, what tore through space was none other than Bahamut.
Bahamut had also entered through the gap that Arthur had opened to enter the Final Tower, and as the space of Eden disappeared, she had crossed dimensions to come here.
KAAAAA!
Zeke, looking at Bahamut whose body remained without soul and heart, recalled something in his mind.
'Has the power of Shadow really disappeared from me?'
The Shadow Armor he used was the legacy of the God of Chaos hidden within the goddess Theia's armor.
And that Shadow Armor disappeared along with the shadow blades imbued in Gram.
But that didn't mean the heart of Bahamut, who was a subordinate of the God of Chaos and the Ruler of Sunset, had disappeared.
'I was mistaken about something.'
Zeke had thought he was using the power of Shadow all along, but in reality, he had only been using Shadow Armor.
He focused his power on Bahamut's heart contained in his diantan.
WOOOONG!
Bahamut's heart was in a state combined not only with the heart of the Elder Dragon but also with various divine attributes.
Nevertheless, at Zeke's core was the heart of the Shadow Dragon Bahamut.
'Bahamut, no... Mother left her heart and fangs for me.'
A glowing pattern appeared over his chest.
WOOOOONG!
As if resonating with the new realization, the pattern that appeared over his chest emitted a strong light.
Simultaneously, something began to seep out from Zeke's body.
TSSS! TSSS! TSSS!
The dense shadow that flowed out enveloped his body.
Shadow incomparably stronger than Shadow Armor.
The true shadow bestowed upon the son of the Ruler of Sunset, the King of Shadows, had revealed itself.
KAAAAA!
Bahamut's body, perhaps sensing the true power of shadow from Zeke's body, roared in response.
Zeke glared at the Corrupted Primordial Light and its avatar with his golden dragon eyes shining.
WOOOONG!
Golden aura and shadow flowed together from his body.
Then soon the shadow and aura began to merge.
SWISH!
Golden light settled into the shadow surrounding Zeke's body.
It was a beautiful sight, like wearing the universe with a massive Milky Way embedded in it.
Zeke spread the Milky Way toward the darkness of the corrupted Primordial Light that was encroaching on his domain.
SWISH!
The massive Milky Way began to envelop the darkness.
Even the Demon King's darkness, which greedily devoured everything, could not consume the Milky Way that Zeke spread.
The beautifully extending Milky Way gently wrapped around the manifestation of the corrupted Primordial Light.
The Milky Way spread like a curtain, enveloping everything, swallowing even the manifestation that combined the Fallen King of Impiety and Solomon, slowly making their forms disappear.
In the end, only the corrupted Primordial Light remained in the center of the Milky Way.
Zeke, descending from Tiamat, stood before the corrupted Primordial Light.
The flickering black light had transformed into a being wearing a black robe.
He kept mumbling something with his head bowed inside the robe.
【A perfect world... A perfect world...】
After seeing the source of the Demon King, the corrupted Primordial Light, up close, Zeke finally understood what kind of being it was.
It was a part where all the negative thoughts, emotions, and lingering attachments of the Primordial Light had sunk and firmly clumped together.
That's why even after the Primordial Light vanished, only this part remained.
Apollion knew this fact and tried to use the distorted causality to corrupt the negative remnants left by the Primordial Light and use their power.
Unlike before when it could act somewhat rationally despite only the negative parts remaining, the corrupted Primordial Light now showed only strong obsession.
The corrupted Primordial Light in its shabby black robe whispered again toward Zeke.
【I can no longer watch the world fall into corruption and destruction... I will eliminate everything. I will eliminate it all!】
RUMBLE!
Black light rippled from his body again.
The body of the corrupted Primordial Light, engulfed in that black energy, transformed into a black beast.
SCREEEEEECH!
It was a nameless beast with an endlessly growing massive body, eyes too numerous to count, and gleaming sharp black teeth.
Thinking something was strange, Zeke calmly observed it and soon realized that the corrupted Primordial Light had been consumed by the Authority of Gluttony that it possessed.
His distorted madness to eliminate the imperfect world had caused the Authority of Gluttony itself to be manifested by the corrupted power of creation.
The monster of Gluttony, satisfied only by swallowing everything, opened its jaws wide and approached Zeke.
SCREEEEEEEEEECH!
The Gluttonous monster opened its massive mouth with a terrible roar, trying to swallow Zeke in one gulp.
Zeke stretched out his hand toward the monster that was trying to swallow and erase the entire world.
WOOOOOONG!
Then Ascalon and Leviathan flew to the front of Zeke's hand.
WOOOONG!
The two swords resonated together, causing vibrations.
The Milky Way flowed from Zeke's arm and wrapped around the two swords.
As the power of the Milky Way settled into the two swords, they slowly began to merge.
Ascalon with the power of light and Leviathan with the power of chaos.
It was a miracle where two unmixable powers became one through the Milky Way that contained both light and shadow.
SWISH!
A new sword formed from the merger of Ascalon and Leviathan revealed itself.
The sword, made entirely of black light from hilt to blade, had dazzling starlight scattered across its surface.
It was a beautiful appearance as if the sword itself was made from the Milky Way.
Zeke slowly reached out and grasped the sword that had formed from the merger of Ascalon and Leviathan.
WOOOONG!
When his touch reached it, the stars engraved on the sword's surface emitted an even brighter light.
Brilliant starlight and noble darkness surged simultaneously.
SCREEEECH!
The Gluttonous monster rushed in, trying to swallow Zeke and the new sword emitting mysterious power whole.
Zeke, who had been quietly watching the Gluttonous monster, swung his sword toward it.
SWOOOSH!
It was simply a sideways slash with the sword, but the result was astonishing.
SLAAASH!
The mouth of the monster, made of the Authority of Gluttony, was torn apart at once by the sword strike.
GRAAAAWL!
The monster writhed as if in disbelief when its mouth was torn with just one sword strike.
But soon the torn mouth of the monster recovered through the darkness that leaked out, creating even sharper teeth.
Once its mouth was somewhat recovered, the monster rushed toward Zeke again.
Zeke quietly murmured softly while holding his sword.
Infinite Sword Technique Final Form
Transcendent Skill
Galaxy Starlight
A massive star that crossed the galaxy arose from Zeke's sword.
That star became light and flew toward the Gluttonous monster that was charging with its mouth open.
SCREEEECH!
A giant star burrowed into its mouth.
The monster devoured the star.
And still, as if not satisfied with swallowing the star, it rushed toward Zeke again.
But then something amazing happened.
WOOOONG!
Light began to leak from the belly of the Gluttonous beast that had swallowed the star.
The gradually leaking light increased, and the stomach of the beast swelled up.
SCREEEEEECH!
Unable to control its swelling body, the Gluttonous beast twisted violently.
It realized something was wrong and tried to vomit out the swallowed star, but it was useless.
At one moment, the monster's eyes met Zeke's.
Zeke looked at it with his golden dragon eyes and murmured.
"Be erased now."
With those words, the star that had burrowed into the monster's body exploded.
BOOM!
Light spread in all directions, and the darkness that formed the beast was erased without a trace.
The void world was now filled with a beautiful galaxy.
Zeke spread the galaxy and absorbed the fragments of the Gluttonous beast.
TSSSSSS!
The remnants of the corrupted Primordial Light were absorbed directly into Zeke.
The Demon King, which had devoured everything and threatened this world for a long time, was absorbed by Zeke and its existence was erased.
As Zeke was storing that power, feeling somewhat overwhelmed by its presence, two faint spiritual bodies appeared before his eyes.
It was King Solomon with chains wrapped around his arms and the Fallen King of Impiety Jiemens Apollion wearing black armor.
Their spiritual bodies silently bowed their heads toward Zeke and then slowly disappeared.
They were the two who had been swallowed by the Demon King and had their souls taken by the Gluttonous monster.
The faintly remaining spiritual bodies had been freed with the demise of the Demon King.
After confirming they had completely disappeared, Zeke looked at the void world that had changed into a new galaxy, then turned his head.
This was because the dimensional gap that Bahamut had torn through still remained.
Bahamut was already flying toward that dimensional gap again.
CRACK!
Watching Bahamut pass through the massive plasma storm and exit through the dimensional gap, Zeke also called Tiamat to move.
He mounted Tiamat and gave the command.
"Tiamat, let's get out of here."
Following Zeke's command, Tiamat roared and sent out waves in different directions from each of its seven heads.
WOOOOOONG!
The waves that Tiamat released widened the dimensional gap that Bahamut had torn.
It had created a passage to exit the isolated dimension.
Tiamat, having easily created a passage for crossing over, spread its wings and flew toward that passage like a red meteor.
RUMBLE!
Zeke, riding Tiamat, escaped from the isolated dimension and returned to the abandoned continent beyond the final tower.
And what he saw was a world of the apocalypse where everything had ended.